Director, People

What You'll Own

• Team leadership — directly managing the People Ops Manager and HRBP team. Run 1:1s, set priorities, give feedback, develop capabilities, and hold the bar.
• Execution of the people roadmap — scope the work, sequence it, assign it, and ensure delivery.
• HRBP function quality — coach on complex employee situations, review work, ensure true business partnership.
• People Ops function oversight — partner with the People Ops Manager to ensure HRIS, lifecycle, compliance, and benefits run cleanly and improve.
• Performance management — own execution of performance cycles, calibration, and coaching infrastructure.
• Employee experience — ensure positive experiences across onboarding, development, and offboarding.
• Talent development — drive programs for manager training, career frameworks, development programming, and growth tools.
• Compliance and policy — stay ahead of employment law, policy gaps, risk; support due diligence and M&As.
• Senior escalation point — handle complex employee relations and sensitive conversations with judgment.
• Cross-functional presence — represent People function in operational threads; credible partner to ELT and leaders.
• AI-native execution — actively use AI tools in work and drive adoption across team and company.

What We're Looking For

• 8–12 years in People/HR, with direct experience managing HRBPs or People partners.
• Broad functional depth across performance, comp, compliance, employee experience, and talent development.
• Strong operator and team developer who energizes from making a team perform.
• Proven ability to take strategic direction and drive execution through others.
• Strategic thinker who operates in the details and brings own point of view.
• Good judgment on escalations.
• Active AI tool user (must describe tools used and what built with them).
• Direct communicator who represents the People function credibly with managers and ELT.